A website that lists the victims of Righthaven LLC 'shakedown' lawsuits that are causing irreparable harm to bloggers and advocacy websites.

Righthaven LLC -- a bottom feeding legal outfit -- has teamed up with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Denver Post to sue mom and pop websites, advocacy and public interest groups and forum board operators for copyright infringement. The strategy of Righthaven is to sue thousands of these website owners, who are primarily unfunded and will be forced to settle out of court.

To date Righthaven has been ordered to pay $323,138 in legal fees and sanctions.

Friday, December 31, 2010

No rational justification can be made by Gibson or anyone else that these persons were deservedly sued for $75,000-$150,000.

Righthaven, the Review-Journal and the Denver Post can only offer irrational justifications for the continued filing of copyright infringement lawsuits, commonly known as 'shakedown' lawsuits. The idea, for instance, that bloggers, like Allegra Wong and non-profits, like the Center for Intercultural Organizing are financially crippling newspapers by diverting large amounts of traffic away from their websites is irrational. Equating actions of infringers to Grand Theft Auto is also clearly irrational.

what is messed up is Righthaven being allowed to find stuff on the net on websites. then buy the copyright, then sue.IT would seem to any judge that they are in the wrong for buying something already published just to get their greedy hands on money, which both LV and Denver papers are losing because more people read online or listen to the radio and watch TV than buy a newspaper anymore. sales of ads are down so they have to find some way to try to screw the people outta money.